Well after another hiatus of not writing since February, I thought I’d better get my thoughts down again.

Quite a bit has happened, so here’s the highlights; my birthday was 10th March and I move nearer to the life span of man as indicated in the Bible. It was lovely day being taken to what I thought was going to be a local hotel for a meal but instead we went passed that and it became a mystery tour. We ended up at the Pennyhill Park hotel and leisure centre in Bagshot, a favourite haunt of the England Rugby 🏉 Union team. The previous day I had got tickets for the 6 Nations match against Italy at Twickenham, and took a friend to share the fairly easy victory against the weakest team in the competition. It was all to no avail, Wales won their match and the Grand Slam, oh well, there’s always next year, but first there’s the World Cup in Japan in October. Pennyhill Park was great, they have an all you can eat buffet on a Sunday lunchtime, and it is lovely, a real blowout with everything you can think of to eat. An added bonus was a three piece jazz band playing ng standards, and then moving from table to table to play birthday greetings or whatever to indivuduals. A super experience.

The rest of the month was the usual round of hospital appointments, blood tests and so on. All routine, just ongoing stuff you have to live with at a certain age, or maybe not. Some people are very lucky when it comes to health, not having any problems at all and then pegging out at the end. Others have innumerable problems and others like me have long term or chronic illnesses which will never get better but will also not kill you early. I’m glad my conditions are controllable and medicated, so I’m not worried particularly about my health, it’s all under control. I find though that looking after yourself has got to be self serving and you must be selfish about it. Only you know what is wrong with you, and only you can do something about it. The trouble with some people, particularly men is that they think they are omnipotent, and don’t ever feel ill or need to visit a doctor. The graveyards are full.of men who say, to misquote Spike Milligan, ‘I didn’t know I was ill’. So be warned.

I could mention Brexit; whoever thought that name up should have copyrighted it. However, its now old news, so maybe not worth any conjecture or opinion. On the other hand its going to affect all our lives one way or another, so perhaps a word or two? For what its worth I voted out, not for purely selfish reasons; we weren’t part of the EU once, so why should we carry on? I’m all for going it alone, we have the wherewithall and the determination. This country will survive, we have the resources, and the rest of the world will admire us for it. Subject closed.

In the past and I’ve been a volunteer at the Olympic Games in 2012, the Rugby World Cup in 2015 and this year I’ve been lucky to be accepted for the cricket world cup CWC19, at Southampton ‘s Aegas Bowl. I’m doing 2 matches as a Spectator Services Volunteer, just like I did at the other events, and a Fanzone which I also did at the Rugby World Cup at Wembley stadium. It should be exciting seeing world class cricket and to know I’ve done my bit towards making a success of CWC19. For all three events I’ve been provided with a uniform, including trainers and some have thought I’m a serial.uniform collector, which I’m not having spent half my life in one uniform or another. No, I just like being involved with these major sporting events.

The Aegas Bowl Southampton

So aside from a big trip down under later in the year, we have no other holiday booked, though we may travel overseas again this summer; to the Isle of Wight. Not been there before so that should be different, or not. Anyway enough of that nonsense until we meet again, or not.

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About cliverh

Retired aerospace engineer, first with the Royal Air Force and then BAE Systems. Now enjoying a variety of activities and not getting bored. I was a Games Maker Volunteer at the London 2012 Olympics and a volunteer at the Rugby World Cup 2015 in England. I intend to blog about what interests me.